Clean Steel Laboratory (CSL)
Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), IIT Bombay
Our Research Team
Principal Investigator
Prof. Manish M Pande
Associate Professor (Feb 2024- present)
Assistant Professor (Aug, 2017- Feb 2024)
MEMS, IIT Bombay
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Email: manish.pande@iitb.ac.in
Phone: 91-22-2576-7609
Area of interest
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Steelmaking; Steel cleanness; Deoxidation equilibria; Inclusions characterization; Thermodynamics of steelmaking reactions; Metallic foams
Educational background
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B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering) from VRCE (now VNIT) Nagpur
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M.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science) from IIT Bombay
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Ph.D (Metallurgical Engineering) from KU Leuven, Belgium
Postdoc Researchers
Dr. Mir Ishfaq
(2024-present)
Education background
B.Tech (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) - NIT Srinagar (2010-2014)
M.E (Materials Engineering - IISc Bangaluru (2015-2017)
Ph.D. (Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science) - IIT Bombay (2018-2024)
Ph.D. thesis topic
Thermodynamic study of aluminium-oxygen equilibrium and inclusion formation in high aluminium steels
PhD Students
Sanjay
(2020-present)
Educational background
B.Tech (Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)- NIFFT (now NIAMT) Ranchi (2011-2015)
M.Tech (Industrial Metallurgy) - IIT Roorkee (2018-2020)
Thesis topic
Formation mechanism and evolution of non-metallic inclusions in high alloy steel
Ankit Anand Raja
(2019-present)
Educational background
B.Tech (Metallurgy Engineering) - BIT Sindari Dhanbad (2010-2014)
M.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering) - IIT BHU Varanasi (2015-2017)
Thesis topic
Modelling of Physico-Chemical Phenomena during induration of Single hematite Pellet
M.Tech students
Abhijeet Mohanta
(2022-present)
Educational background
B.Tech (Metallurgical Engineering)- Government college of engineering, Keonjhar (2013-2017)
M.Tech (Process Engineering) - IIT Bombay (2012-Present)
Thesis topic
Influence of Ti addition on the inclusion characteristics in Al-killed steel
Dual degree students
Alumni
Gaurav Verma (193110007)
B.Tech (2015-2019): MNIT Jaipur
M.Tech (2019-2021): IIT Bombay
Thesis topic
Thermodynamic study of Al-Ca-Ti-O inclusions in steelmaking
B. Vinith (203110010)
B.Tech (Hons) (2015-2019): NIT Raipur
M. Tech (2020-2022): IIT Bombay
Thesis topic
Thermodynamic study of inclusions modification in liquid steel
Ajeet Kumar (213110039)
B.Tech (2015-2019): NIT Srinagar
M.Tech (2021-2023): IIT Bombay
Thesis topic
The experimental analysis of the inclusion formation in Ti-containing liquid steel
